Babuyan Island of the Philippines

Babuyan Islands are one of the islands of the Philippines that form an archipelago and this island located somewhere in Luzon Strait north of Luzon Island. It is separated from Luzon by the Babuyan Channel and from the Batanes Islands to its north by the Balintang Channel.

The Babuyan Islands composed of five major islands: Babuyan island, Calayan, Camiguin, Dalupiri, and Fuga. Note that the Camiguin island here is different from the island-province of Camiguin in Mindanao. The history of this island which is the babuyan Island is that in the 19th century, sailors stumbled on the islands and started a backward civilization.Until such time in the mid-20th century Christian Missionaries introduced Christianity to the islands. In 1942, Japanese troops landed in the Babuyan Islands.In 1945, during World War II, the Allied Philippine Commonwealth troops landed in Babuyan Islands and attacked the Japanese forces in the Battle of the Babuyan Islands.